"The integrated person is person as Subject. In contrast, the adaptive person is person as object, adaptation representing at most a weak form of self-defense. If man is incapable of changing reality, he adjusts himself instead. Adaptation is behavior characteristic of the animal sphere; exhibited by man, it is symptomatic of his dehumanization."
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Paulo Freire
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (September 19, 1921 β May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and theorist of critical pedagogy.
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